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THE Ballard Squibs. The mud; the beautiful mud.... Away out in Spruce township we jhave been blessed with plenty of | weather, snow and rain witha pleas- jaunt day now and then....I know of | Comptimentary te Jadze Parkinson. | | Osceols San. | If the new jadicisi bill becomes a law, St. Clair, Henry, Bates and Ben- ton will form a judicial cireuit. The ABig |no one save W H Bradley having| Hoo. John D. Parkinson, of Bates | joats sown....Hay wagons can be county, should be the unanimous; LATEST THINCS IN Dress Goods AND Dress Trimmings, J. M. McKiBBEN. RA EES Rev. W. P. Yeaman has formally an-' nounced himself a candidate for gov- | ernor. in the race and a lively one it prom-! at the Columbian Exhibition at Chi-| bis man; only hope he may receive ises to be —Jefferson City Tribune. | cago next year, but such is the fuct. ‘word to put in corn aud Judge Parkinson of Butler, who | was in the city a short while Mon-/ day reports that the convention held | at Butler Saturday, selected 14 dete-| gates to the Sedalia convention May | 11, and they were instructed for Cleveland. J. D. Allen candidate for | delegate at large, was endorsed by the convention. Judge Parkinson | is of the opinion the county is for | Stone for governor.—Neyada Dem. | $20,000 stock of dry goods and, general merchandise to exchange for good Bates county land. Mize & Crarpy. Nevada nobly stood by the Agi-| tator. Col. W. J. Stone, who is in | the race for governor, is a great | friend of the negro. We consider him at all odds the most brilliant | and polished of the many candidater for the chief of state. Being a fine! lawyer, possessed with strong per-_ sonality. Missouri would make no} mistake in nominating and electing him.—National Agitator. A successful farmer gives the fol- | lowing directions for raising 700 | bushels of potatoes to the acre. He | says, “Manure a good piece of sod | ground late in the fall and plow | moderately deep. Let this lie un-| disturbed until the corn is planted ; the next spring and then plow deep, | throwing up the decayed and assim- | ilated manure. Harrow thoroughly and plant a good depth, keep down the weeds and trust to providence for the rest.”—Leroy Reporter. Wanted } to exchange $12,000 stock of nice, | clean hardware,running and doing a good business in good county seat town in Ohio. Mizz & Crarpy. The members of the county court | will visit Kansas City next Monday for the purpose of holding an inter- view with Judge Jno. F. Philips in | regard te our railroad bonded in-| debtedness. It is more than likely that Judge Philips will ornament some county jail in this state with | these wax-figures. loss, however to St. Clair county.— Osceola Sun. It will be no! The democratic convention met at Butler last Saturday to elect dele-| ict Rig ae ge a Gea gates to the state convention, in-} ) structed the delegates for J. D. Al len of the Times, as delegate to the national convention fom the us trict. Mr. Allen belongs to the young political element and we are | glad to know that the time has come when the young men are com- ing to the front. Mr. Allen is a gentleman and fair-minded man, as to his political record we know noth- ing of it.—Adrian Journal. Tho Responsibility of Mau. Rev. Dr. Kuhne. It is a false idea altogether, to suppose that a man can escape from his own act or deed, be it good or bad. ed it, he has given it an existence, aa As soon 2s he has commi individuality, which he can never} destroy. It becomes independent of him and goes into the world, to deal its influence in wideaing circles | cheap rate. it? far beyond his reice. There are now seven entries | §hit our county will be | child has lost his arrow—the world | ‘or speak a pleasant word to him, | cheerfully. and speak a pleasant ;word to him, and he leaves your} light up his own hearth with smiles| Bates County at the World’s Fair. It may not be generally known represented | Messrs Moudy & Taylor of Mer-| | win, are moving a large walnut log! from the place where it grew to Merwin. The tree was grubbed out | by its roots, is six feet in diameter) | at its base and sixty feet (long) to the first limb, where it is forty-four | inches in diameter. They have | moved it three miles and are uow| waiting for the reads todry. They) are to receive one hundred and twenty-five dollars for putting it on | the car at Merwin. The big tree, grew on the Heraldson land, near Burdette, and is to be taken to Chi-! cago and set up ou the World’s Fair grounds, where it will be properly labeled as a product of Bates county Missouri, and will be looked upon | by thousands, if not millions of peo- ple. It will indeed be a standing | advertisement of our county and| | productiveness of our soil.—Record. | Pleasure is Cheap. (Rev. Dr. Kuhne.) | Did you ever study the cheapness | of some pleasures? Do you know!) how little it takes to make a multi-| tude happy? Such trifles asa penny, | a word, or a smile do the work. | There are two or three boys passing | along, give them each an apple and} how smiling they lock. They will | not be cross for some time. A poor | widow lives in a neighborhood who! is the mother of half a dozen chil-| dren; send them half a peek of pota. | toes, and they will all be happy. A/ to him—and he mourns sadly; help him to find it, or make him another, | and how quickly ‘the sunshine play upon his sober face? A boy has as much as he can do to pile up a load of wood; assist him a few moments, and he forgets his toil and works away without minding it. Young ap- prentice has broken a mug, or cut the vest too large, or slightly injured | a piece of work; say, “you scoundrel” | and he feels miserable; but remark, | “Tam sorry,” and he will try to do} better. You employ a man, pay him house with a contented heart, to/ of gladness. As you pass along the street, you! | morning,” as though you felt happy, land it will work admirably in the) heart of your neighbor. As the poet Bays: | Speak gently ‘tis a little thing Dropped in the heart’s deep well; The good, the jey which it may bring, Eternity shall tell. Pleasure is cheap. Who will not bestow it liberally? If there are si’os, sunshine and flowers all ; about us, let us not grasp them with | amiser’s fistand lock them up in v hearts. No, rather let us take them and scatter them about us, in ; the cot of the widow, among the | groups of children. in the crowded | mart, where the : of business | es and ey- | congregate, in ov | erywhere. { We can make the wretched happy, the discontented cheerful, the af- | flicted resigned, at an exceedingly |the city linnts. jseen in almost any directiou; feed | choice for judge of the ellectors of ssiaanee cattle — herses Plenty; £0 | this cireuit. As a jurist, he has no | rings good prices... .See Rec} a i 2 [Cote oe i po te Gassloce four |sapene: in the whole state His good mules, roads or no roads he | education specially qualifies him for gets there just the same....McClen-|judicial functions. He is a tine uey is out hunting a wule trade; if! classical and the Insitutes, it wasa horse ke wanted Dr Me ods Novellae, of could tell him where to ¢ faatinine “EWE soebere diethGoke Paudects, aud Starks is home looking well; s jit well wath his hogs...... W | | can accommodate @ man iu almost! to him as the latest text books and | anything, even tell him where to find the « highest tribue jan Allen man. Allen was our man xs \ : x ‘ait He is a man of jand he is all OK....Call aud see, |what Cris Greer has at his place,/ iu will, aud unfailing courage, and | not but a mule...... RD can be absolutely relied upon to de- | Beatty, our merchant, seems to be /having a good trade which we are glad to see; he has dry goods and groceries and himseif, Cris or Joho wil] attend to your wants in due Of pettifoggers and demagogues, lecisions of the nals of our country. ‘cide cases upou their merits, uncou- tr H in iby popular cis Lun- r, a need by the pleas and artitices time.....Jobn Lentz will go to! Judge Parkinsen’s ruificent re Adrian and stay ENO or three days at jcord on the bench, where he served a time in spite of all we can do. <<<) tie people awa; Gee Casals CK Crow can be th almost daily; he lives just outside | 2 . .W # Tyler, we} pre-eminently fitted to discharge ju- understand has receive: stay on his place and pu seen ul If he consents to be word to | dicial duties. ats for'eome a candidate, we then stay and attend it....Daniel Embree | and Charley Board were seen on our | Uuanimous vote. streets a few d since: hope they they will conclude to teach this summer as they both taught splen lid schools the past winter...... pruce and Mingo township courts | ant Hill held a joint session here Saturday last to take steps toward a line road. We say give us the roads aud let the) . f townships pay for the same... .Jno but there is one thing absolutely 5B Hays says he is done with mutes) certaip, and that is, we can have the aud before loug hopes to deal ex ipreasure of knowing that clusively in black cattle; why not, be! dentine out justice and impartiality Se ime ko men Wo held one else....Dr McFarland, after au absence out west (5 miles) the past |highest regard for our brethr of 6 montis has rented the Greer prop-| Bites aud would have done and said erty and returned to this communi-!as mueh for any ty where he will give his profession | who possesses the morn! courage to all his time....Judge C D Cole at-| 5 : se tended the convention Saturday,but CMe oUt aud take an open fight.— notasa delegate....James Wilds | Pleasant Hill Gazette. | still holds fast to all there is in the | ear <p ames U L party with contidence of success; Geo. C. Ward, of Kan again....Mre Alice Embree is quite jliance editor of tue K sick; we hear she has the diabetis | tion and election by Bro Wade, of the Bates C Dore it, 3 Gazette for delegaie to the | National Convention.” Our eudorse- | iment may vot be of any importanee, | we are; other caudidate City, al og patent I | newspaper establishment,lectured to .-.-Glad to see finger beards at) on 4 ore of | es house The editors of papers are about nud alli- editor a slim audierce at the court our cross roads, let's have u them... Squire Lafollett ealls y week to get the mails; guess its the) Ka sas Cit Times he wants as he likes to keep | as well verse up with times....S P Evans aud Robt Ray are horse treders; Dr. Me But says he has quit the business; they cen find the trading horse on Peter; then the wll the same and creek....Lee Embree will farm at) talk glibly on the waats and needs Saturday evening pat iu farming jance matters as the average jofa country alhanee paper. y look wi home this summer, that is what time | of the down tro iden and long saf he isu’t at Hick Ray’s....Dick An-! fering farin drews still lives and de the | i: vend flew end ways” he is still able : ae : | a raya at Bill Tales pei | Besides the $5,000 the city de- Johnstown daily mail gets in in very jtives direct from saloon license. old good time considering the terrible | Mt. Pleasant receives ver $1,709 a roads,..,Mrs Clara Greer was some | year from the same source to apply better at last So PER eae A indy jon the old township railroad bonds. from Butler, we believe, visited | Robt Beatty's the past week. . Listen | Butler pays about three fourths of don’t you hear Robt Beatty's geese? | the taxes of the township, therefore Cris Greer is after the eggs...... | the city is benefitted about $1,200a Our friend Tom Brown is stopping | year in this manner by the saloons. | Cole has land to rent, in fact be|early jurisprudence. are as famihar | believe St. | Clair county will favor his nomuna- ; ee 2 practically | with Mr Johnson, and, by the way, | Mr J is reported quite sick down | south where he is feeding cattle. | Hope Zack may get well.... Report comes to us that Sam Price will re turn to Missouri on a visit; Oscar H | can tellyou: if any one is coming | with him... . Doc Bell is still laid up with rheumatism; come, Doc, take up thy bed and walk....Geo Evans | has some one to laugh at him now, but Nig is gone all the same... .Jas | Frazee is at his father-in law, Hick | Ray’s, suffering with what was left | of the grip. Jack. | Female Counterteiter Sentenced. Clinton Democrat. | Deputy U. S. Marshall Sidell, ar- | nived in Clinton Saturday night hav-| ing in charge Mamie Box, who was | arrested in Kansas City some time; ago on a charge of passing counter- \ feit money. She was found guilty | aud sentenced to a term in our | county jail. ' Miss Box is about 19 years of age | preposessing in appearance, with a | | fine face and figure, and easy grace | of manuer and assumed innocence | that was well calculated to make her | an adept at her profession, had she | not been nipped in the bud before | she had acquired that smoothness / which comes with much practice 1n | shoving the queer. ‘Kor Kent. Forty four acres of good pasture land, adjoimmg Butler on the east. ; Cail on Mrs. A. Heury 19 2wks. omest Lady in But! h she the Throat and Lungs w perior remedy, stopped her co instantly when o cough remedies had no effect whatever, So to prove this and convince you of its! Who will refuse to do ) merit, any druggist will give you a sam ple bottle tree. Large size soc and Ste i | ering my face. | physician was afraid I would lose my eyesight The city democratic campaign committee met Monday and put the name of F.C. Sunth on the ticket for assessor. This isa good selec- tion, as Mr. Smith is well qualified for the position. DREADFUL PSORIASIS Covering Entire Body with White Scales. Suffering Fearful. Cured by Cuticura. My disease (psoriasis) firat broke out on my left , &preading across my nose, and almost cov. It ran into my eyes, and the altogether. 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Price, Cutictma, 50c.; Soap, | "6 xD CuEmIcaL ConPoRAtioN, Boston ! | For Two Weeks at Cost, B and Blackstone—the entire body of | on April Ist we will commence a | | | A BIG COST SALE. | ET : { —_ }is convincing evidence that he is} Now remember this is for just two weeks only, and we will sell every- thing in our house at dorsed by such papers as the Pieas-| s We want money and must have it. New is your time to buy your pring Goods Cheap. Now bring on your cash and get the goods, for nothing else will get them. Boston Store. TS If you want to buy or sella farm ij An Impertant Difference. To make it apparent to thousands | 0r make any kind of exchange, call who think themselves ill, that they | on or write to are not affected with any disease, | but that the system simply needs | cleansing, is to bring comfort home to their hearts, as a costive condi- ic as tion is easily cured by using Syrup | pa pooner 4 the wants of of Figs. Manufactured by the Cali- | '* CUS! enue WES GH jal fornia Fig Syrup Co. ’ Meh | Paper is the largest and best assort- ke | re nt = rt to the city, also ae Ree of window-glass, paints, etc., in his “ W . Dacre s stock of high line. None but experienced work- grade gilts and pressed wall paper |}men Call and examine stock and decorations are models of art and | get prices. 18-tf plecg : i i oy a | elegance; don’t failtoseethem. 18 tf | Drug Stock For Sale. A new clean stock of drugs for sale at a bargain. Call on or address J. S. Pierce, Adrian, Mo. Mize & Crarpy. D. W. Drummond announces him- self still on deck, and better than ever prepared to respond promptly The Coming Country. The gieat Flathead Valley in Mon. tana, 1s attracting capital and labor. It is marvelously fertile in soil, has | the largest coal veius on the Pacific | | | | | Tonsorial Artist. Six chairs, no waiting, you are next slople, limitless forests of the finest | gale and asst 3 ‘ LISESCIASS Ree z ‘i ne a ‘ 1 Nave and a shampoo. nest timber and precious metals. Co | shop in the city. Best batters. North lumbia Palle, the chief town of the! Mainstreet, opposite postofiice. region, has immense water power, | Ws. Boone, Prop’r. aud offers a good field for manu- | — Roa a2 facturers. Maps and descriptive , Notice ot School Election. matter sent by the | Pe ey ase - | Northern International Imporye- } he belie ie eae ee on to jment Co. Columbia Falls, Mont. | p. ; eee | Bates county, sfo., on the first Tues- | day in April, 1892, the proposition Several good farms in Bates coun- | to make the tax levy for the ensuing | ty to exchange for merchandise. | year 65 cents on the $100 valuation | Mize & Crarpy. | of tee property of said district for Ss — | contingent and teachers’. fund will Stallions and Jacks for Sale. | be submitted to the qualified voters I have seven stallions and five | of said school district: said election jacks ef different classes. One im- | to be held at the same time with the ported Clydesdale, the others high-| election for officers for said city and grade roadsters, drivers and saddle | at the place in each ward in said city horses. Can suit any man in qual: | of Butler designated by the board ty and style of jack. Come sod see | of s!dermen of said city for the elec- me at the Elkhorn stables, Butler, or | tion of said city officers. By order address J. W. Suits, of Butler school board. EGGS WANTED Cash, Dry Goods or Groceries. Butler, Mo. C. A. Dexstos, = W. W. Ross, ee Har d CULVER & LANE. The Soap CULVER & LANE‘S, Water This “th day of march, 1892. 17 3t | for West side Square. High prices in e is Lenox. Farmers of Bates County, take no- tice that the firm of Pharis & Son, by an unbroken record of five years have demonstrated to the people of Bates County that they pay the strongest trices for Butter, Eggs and poultry. We pay the people cash for pro- duce. Call onus on the South side ‘quare Butler, Mo. 730